Im 54 and I believe all the best songs have been written 🤷🏻♂️
@eyeq7730
20 күн бұрын
I was born in 77 and my earliest memory is listening to Madness - our house and Moody Blues - Nights in white satin on a Radio show that often played in our kitchen on the radio, while sitting on the stairs i'd say as a five or six year old. As a nine year old my first two records were Europe - The Final Countdown and Iron Maiden - Live after Death. My dad in my early teens got me into Dire Straits. In the early nineties i was into gangsta rap and by mid nineties I was into German and Dutch Electronic Music but by the end of the nineties there was nothing and I mean NOTHING that interested me that was being produced!
@67Parsifal
6 күн бұрын
Re: the Beatles. They were a lot more sophisticated than any rival pop group in 1962/3 and the progress they made from then up to 1967 was astonishing. I’d say they split at the right time.
@paulthesurfer7470
20 күн бұрын
Twenty great rock/pop songs from just this century (no particular order, from the top of my 62yo head); The Black Keys - Lonely Boy Outkast - Hey ya Manic St Preachers - (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl Chris Cornell - You Know My Name (the best James Bond track ever!) Andrew W.K. - Party Hard (honourable nod to the Beasty Boys) Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune (eat your heart out Led Zep) Rival Sons - Keep On Swinging The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love (their first two albums are British classics) Little Red - Rock It (Australian as buggery and always good for fun, clean pop) You Am I - Buzz The Boss Cold Chisel - Missing a Girl (believe it or not, the band is 50 years old. World class and ignored) Baby Animals - Stitch. (30 years after an amazing debut album) Paul Kelly - Finally Something Good (a childhood contemporary of mine who has 45 years of hits) The Avalanches - Because I'm Me (hard to believe they are Australian & a great example of musical cross pollination) Royal Headache - Down The Lane (Could be from any era, any city, any lane. A perfect song.) That's an eclectic Aussie list. Ya just gotta keep those ears and your mind open. Cheers.
@marysweeney7370
21 күн бұрын
it is interesting how young people can listen to older music and appreciate it, when it is in fact, as in the example of the Beatles, over 60 years old! Funny story along these lines, my nephew took a liking to Bing Crosby. I figured that for him to go back to the late 30's early 40's would have been nearly 80 years prior to his birth, I don't think I would have been interested in old music 80 years past when I was 10, which might have been ragtime music or barbershop quartets of the "gay nineties" lol. I think it is wonderful that young people can enjoy rock from the 60's onward as well as some related folk and blues that influenced rock in its early days. All this music stands up well even today.
@AitchAitch999
25 күн бұрын
I’m a little older than you, and I remember being switched off music in the mid 70s ,well singles especially, as there were groups like the Osmonds, Slade, Wizzard, Gary Glitter’s band, Bay City Rollers etc etc and preferred music coming from the US and female vocalists. At least Punk broke the mould to some extent, but my preference stayed with groups like CSNY, Eagles, Chicago, Santana and others. It’s only really in the last year that I’ve become keen on Jazz and long driving journeys for work purposes while listening to Radio 3 got me in to Classical.
@LPCLASSICAL
25 күн бұрын
those artists were not much good but there was lots more in those days before the 80s got going and MTV etc. Queen had their zenith between 75 and 80 as did Pink Floyd but if you liked music like The Eagles I can guess you did not like Floyd and Queen - totally different sound and you probably preferred the Beach Boys to the Beatles.
@AitchAitch999
25 күн бұрын
Yes you are right, did not (and still don’t) like the Beatles, though can’t say Beach Boys were too high on my list. I didn’t like Queen (I like them more now), I tried to like Floyd, but never really got into them - I appreciate what they do, but can’t say I’m a fan.
@Philliben1991
21 күн бұрын
During lock down I listened to the Top 500 singles on Rate Your Music from each year from 1950 to 2022. Over 30,000 singles. Based on that fairly large sample pop music has declined signifIcantly since the 1990s but I think it's worth noting there is still really good music out there by contemporary artists. I also rate the 1990s higher than the 1980s. Anyway I rated every song out of 5 and anything that got 4 or over went on a shortlist. The average year was getting 158 shortlisted songs from the listed 500. No year since 2000 has even had 100 shortlisted songs. So yeah things have been in decline in the 21st century but I was still hearing 60, 70, 80 really good singles in the 2010s and 2020s. By the way there is also a lot of great R&B, blues, rockabilly and country in the 1950s.
@LPCLASSICAL
21 күн бұрын
I suppose there are more good songs from the last 25 years and I just have not heard them as I do not really follow that music much.
@koopa8063
24 күн бұрын
The only new band I'm looking forward to now is a band called Fontaines D. C. They're new single Starburster is amazing.
@drssexy2142
24 күн бұрын
theyre shit
@apchsiri1156
25 күн бұрын
Curious that you should contrast The Jam with Blondie because I've long said that the former in the U.K. were like the latter in the U.S.: achievers of a handful of chart-topping hits from '79 to '81 making the bands into household names before vanishing. Also curious with the mention of John Denver as an example of intergenerational musical appreciation because I've often used him as representative of a more unified culture: a musician one's grandparents, parents and one's youthful self were all familiar with in the 1970s.
@LPCLASSICAL
25 күн бұрын
Blondie's chart toppers span a bit longer - 78 to 82 and they stayed together much longer than The Jam. I contrasted them because The Jam had something to say to young men growing up in Thatcher's Britain. Blondie had nothing to say about that - it was mostly songs about boy girl love. The Jam were far more relevant to me as a young man but somehow they went over my head. Someone in chat mentioned John Denver. I just said I liked him.
@paulthesurfer7470
20 күн бұрын
I am a child of 1961 from Australia. I can't believe you have no memories of "pop" music prior to the early 1970's I can remember The Beatles visiting my very Anglophile city of Adelaide in 1964! I also remember my home full of classical music and books and my parents singing the hits of the day to their children. Nature vs nurture if you like, when it comes to the child... You miss the point of why "rock" came along in 1955. Before then there was no such thing as "teenagers" and when Marlon was asked what he was rebelling against ("Dunno. Whatayagot?") a spark was lit. On a commercial level, the 45 RPM single was Rock's basic currency and the easiest way to extract pocket money from this new demographic - that was slowly evolving, along with the technology. Vinyl, analogue records only existed for twenty years, between stereo in '65 to digital in '85. Think about that, please. I am sure that you would very much enjoy the book "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music" by Greg Milner. It would put a lot of your musings into another perspective. Cheers, and thanks.
@LPCLASSICAL
20 күн бұрын
I was born in 1964 so 3 years younger. My first memory of any song on TV is certainly wanderin star in 1972 so I was 8 then. Most likely I did not often watch TV until that time though I recall watching Sesame Street in the late 60s in Canada. Well the LP microgroove has been around since 1950 or so and stereo LPs appeared around 1960ish. I never made any claim about why rock n roll appeared in the 50s.
@67Parsifal
6 күн бұрын
The only time I’ve liked current pop music was when I was around 6-7 years old, which coincided with glam rock. That was an ideal genre of music to grab very small children (Mick Tucker’s percussion interlude in the Sweet’s Blockbuster is a good example for what I mean) and the visual element also grabbed me. The great age of pop-rock music was 1965-75. I’ve caught up a bit since then and can now enjoy some stuff from the 80s, but the best of it was below the radar. Have absolutely no idea about current pop, it just seems ‘awesomely bland’ to me.
@LPCLASSICAL
5 күн бұрын
I more or less agree. Being a Blondie and Queen fan I would stretch that to 1980.
@67Parsifal
5 күн бұрын
@@LPCLASSICAL 1980 was the last great pop/rock year, and it was a watershed: it was when the sixties belatedly ended. Lennon’s murder at the end of the year was a massive full stop. I’m a fan of classic rock, but I’ve become frustrated with how ‘rock’ seems to be dominated by three or four massive bands with a few also-rans bringing up the rear. My favourite band is Led Zeppelin, and my favourite composer is Wagner (I imagine you dislike both, given what I know of your tastes).
@lateoreadeltuttoditomcampb6899
22 күн бұрын
In my experience the older generations back in the 70s didn't like the popular music of that time; they found it noisy, aggressive and you would hear the classic coment 'it all sounds the same'
@LPCLASSICAL
22 күн бұрын
Maybe that is the case. I am probably thinking about my mum and dad, uncles and aunts who were late 20s.
@spindriftdrinker
20 күн бұрын
Golden era only goes up to early 80s? What's wrong with the late 80s? The late 80s were good too. Agreed that many bands such as the Police, Queen and Blondie declined quite a bit in the late 80s, but there were lots of good minor bands making good songs in the late 80s.
@mrthomas394
20 күн бұрын
There's no identity to music anymore.... The 60s had a certain look you dressed like the bands you followed' the 70s had glam rock and punk both had their own identity visually' the new romantic scene was very identifiable buy what you would wear on a night out' the 90s britpop thing my era again had a certain look'.... What musical movement do we have now? What scene is on the street? What identity do young people have clothing wise to music?.... Pubs are dead' clubs are dead' everybody is glued to Facebook and tik tok🤷 a very sad state of affairs.
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